Eclipse has block selection? Awesome! err.. finally

Prasanna — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:45:11 +0000

Just noticed this “block selection” feature in eclipse. What this lets you do is select a block of text instead of just lines. Suppose you wanted to copy

1 class Hello:
2 def __init__(self):
3 print “hello”

If you wanted to copy this, I’d put in vim and run :%s/^\(\d\+\)\s //g [Double check this]
to remove the line numbers or depending on how much I’d like to tinker, perl.. Now I can just do it in eclipse. Something I’ve wanted to do since my pre-regexp days..

Notepad++ has had this feature since forever, but its nice to see this in eclipse finally.
http://www.vasanth.in/2009/03/31/eclipse-tip-block-selection-mode/

Granted, it doesn’t really really add much for me personally, I’ve heard a bunch of people ditching eclipse for Notepad++, so here you go!
Cheers!

Making scripts executable with vim hooks

Prasanna — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 01:13:10 +0000

I write a lot of shell, python and sometimes perl scripts to get things done and it gets somewhat mildly annoying to set them as executable every once in a while. Here’s a trick from shell-fu Tip #858

I just added the following line to my ~/.vimrc

au BufWritePost * if getline(1) =~ “^#!” | if getline(1) =~ “/bin/” | if getline(1) =~ “/usr/bin” | silent !chmod a+x | endif | endif

I have improved the script a little bit as I need to use python a lot (i.e, #!/usr/bin/env python)

If you have a better way to write the regex, comment here but I think this is good enough for most purposes.

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Eclipse has block selection? Awesome! err.. finally

Making scripts executable with vim hooks